True NO Till Gardening Direct Seeding Growing ( Building ) Soil for Homesteading Organic Vegetables for beginners 101. Part 1.7.. No till gardening with mulch. Composting leaves can also be used in a organic vegetable garden 101 income.
VIDEO: True NO Till Gardening Seeding Building Soil for Homesteading Vegetables for beginners 101. Part 1.7
True NO Till Gardening Direct Seeding Growing ( Building ) Soil for Homesteading Organic Vegetables for beginners 101. Part 1.7.. No till gardening with mulch. Composting leaves can also be used in a organic vegetable garden 101 income.
Love your videos. You explain AND demonstrate and interestingly, keep the focus
off of yourself. Perfect.
Mark do you have any videos of carrot harvest using this method? Love your videos.
Thanks for the cordless hedge trimmer attached to the rake idea. That will be perfect for cutting hay for my garden!
how do I do this for my potato patch? Should I plant deep and not hill the potatoes so as not to disturb the rye roots in the soil.
Pleas check out my Wauna blade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghztevhtapc with it I can mow down to the soil level in one pass and if there are no rocks also turn it sideway and cut the planting grove through the roots.
Hey, doesn't anyone make a hand-push (or pull) disc? Or something like the hand-held corn planters – chonk the blades in, open, drop in a seed, step to close the hole?
I am and am going to be using a sythe, it is very efficient and easy.
Sorry Mark but this is way more work than a normal no dig garden. Sorry.
Thank you Mark for this important reminder.
I am going to build a rolling cutter
I bought some romaine lettuce starter plants at Whole Foods this year I've never grew Romaine but these things grew up to be about 4 and 1/2 5 feet high what is the deal with that? I was expecting a bundle low to the ground nice romaine lettuce. Is that how we remain grows in a stock?
Do you just keep repeating this process year after year? Truly, never tilling? I am only ASSuming that this would happen – How do you prevent the soil from getting too firm and compacted over the years?
Thanks again the hedge trimmer and the rake was one of the first video of yours I watched, great invention, adaptation. I am so pleasantly surprize I came across your videos out of the blue. The perfect organic farmer, I have learnt some thing new in all your videos
I use an edger that I can use my foot to make the ditch. Saves my back!
why use paper to cover the ground?
Thanks Mark, I need to get my winter rye cut down now
Love this idea of improving soil. I see lots of benefits with alot of crops. I think this would be hard to do with potatoes though, it seems like you would still have rototill atleast a little bit, or use a broad fork.
I think it would be much more accurate to call this zone tillage.
Hey Mark, just curious how would I plant winter rye in garden after harvest also without tillin?
I love your videos and I've learned a lot from you. But I'm reluctant to use a weed whacker because as the plastic string wears down it adds microplastics to the soil. Can you suggest an alternative for the home gardener?
Hi Mark! Do you have to have a ground cover first? Can I apply the same no till principals to a garden plot full of grass/weeds? Thanks!
Rye's kind of hard to get rid of
Wouldn't Spring wheat be better
Hi Mark just curious if you had any experience with buckwheat, if so could it be sown at the moment? Thanks
What happens after you harvest the garden of the vegetables we could plant? It seems logical to plant rye again for soil build-up during the winter for the cicle to be repeated.
My doubt is: all the rye is now mulch, how will I plant the rye again if the mulch is there and with out tilling it?
How did this end up working out for you?
I use a blade on my weed whip to cut a slot for my seeds and it works equally good.
I love the ideas for no till you have here thank you!
My question is my cover crop is not very tall because deer have been eating it over the winter. Does it have to grow to the 18 in and start to seed out before you cut it in order for it to stop growing.or does trimming it down close to the ground end it's growing season?
Black &Decker's Edge-Hog has a "trench" mode, effective but not sure if this item is still made. Also with a good weedeater and some practice you should be able to cut a thin line into the soil, like pin striping a car..